Posts by Gayle Waitches

This article by Hilary Jacobs Hendel provides a window into how we might explore racist parts. It is such important and essential work. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/emotion-information/202102/the-making-and-healing-racist

Consciousness-expanding portals which invite us toward deeper intra-psychic places include meditation, yoga, breath work, certain kinds of psychotherapy such as IFS and Hakomi, expressive arts, rituals, and psychedelics. Traveling through these portals offers us the experience of non-ordinary states of being, and in the process, we can forge new patterns of alignment and self-nurturance, and…

Certain forms of Psychotherapy, including IFS and Hakomi, offer such an exploration of our deeper realms. Through mindful attention and imaginative visualization, we can visit many different parts of ourselves, and gather unexpected information. What burdens do our different parts carry? How old are they? What beliefs have they concretized about you? What jobs do…

Listen to this podcast with Dr. Richard Schwartz, PhD, to gain greater understanding of our inner world using the IFS lens.

AEDP, an approach based on neuroscience research, braids what we’ve learned about attachment theory, emotional intelligence, transformational theory and infant-mother research. A trauma-informed approach, AEDP privileges healing as well as insight. The goal of this work is to tend to the deeper causes of anxiety, depression, or other symptoms by unearthing the roots of these…

Don’t surrender your lonelinessSo quickly.Let it cut more deep. Let it ferment and season youAs few humanOr even divine ingredients can. Something missing in my heart tonightHas made my eyes so soft,My voiceSo tender, My need of GodAbsolutelyClear. Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi In the IFS method of conceptualizing our Core Selves, perhaps the notion of…

Learn more about Internal Family Systems through this audio series which covers topics including: – All Erotic Parts are Welcome, with Larry Rosenberg – IFS, Trauma and Neuroscience, with Frank Anderson – From Reactive to Self Led Parenting, with Paul Neustadt – IFS as a Metamodel of Therapy, with Art Mones – The Role of…

There are many resources available for folks interested in learning more about Internal Family Systems. Here are few below: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW3_oqt84pU4Hajx5dsKU-A

Here is a lovely article written by Hilary Jacobs Hendel regarding the importance of allowing our emotional experience, rather than trying to fix it, deny it or defend against it. Being With Sadness- Hilary Jacobs Hendel The thought of going to a funeral used to terrify me. Walking into a room filled with sadness and…

Michael Eigan, a psychologist and psychoanalytic mystic in New York City, and author of 26 books, offers his perspective on Covid-19 in this podcast. It is worth a listen. https://lnkd.in/gSjvRuG